Three encounters at Villa Torlonia: on October 7th, prof. Ervedo Giordano, emeritus of Tuscia University, will guide the public to the discovery of ancient trees and to the privileged relationship they have always had with man; on October 21st, prof. Valerio Sbordoni of the University Roma Tor Vergata will talk about the feelings butterflies have…

The meeting on ‘The Management of the Italian Natural Science Collections’ will take place in Rome on October 14th, 2014. The Meeting, promoted by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Association of Scientific Museums, aims at starting a debate on possible solutions that could lead to a more efficient management and a better…

The opening ceremony of the 232nd Academic Year of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL will take place on May 15th, 2014 at the Academy Library in Villa Torlonia (Scuderie Vecchie di Villa Torlonia, Via L. Spallanzani 1/A, Rome). Programme in

The first Systems Biology and Systems Medicine School will take place in Como at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies created under the auspices of the University of Milan, University of Milano – Bicocca, University of Pavia and University of Insubria, and with the patronage of the Italian National Academy of Sciences and the…

Rome, November 18th, 2013 – 9.30 am– 1.15 pm. Welcome address: prof Emilia Chiancone, President, National Academy of Sciences called of the XL; Coordinator: prof. Giorgio Bignami, President Association Forum Droghe, former research director at the National Institute of Health. Speakers: prof. Alessandro Ballio, Sapienza University of Roma and One of the XL, prof. Massimo Castagnola, Catholic University of…

The Second Annual Assembly will be held in the Library of the National Academy of Sciences on November 6th, 2013. PROGRAMME Welcome address by the President of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL Prof. Emilia Chiancone Induction conference by Academy member Prof. Luciano Mayol, University of Naples ‘Federico II’ ‘Duets, Trios, Quartets…

A training course for primary and secondary school teachers promoted by the National Association of the Life Sciences Teachers (ANISN) and the Italian National Academy of Sciences called Academy of the XL.The course is held by Academy member Giuseppe Macino, professor of Cell Biology at Sapienza University of Rome. The course is open to teachers from…

The Italian National Academy of Sciences and the Sacred Convent of Assisi organize for the 9th consecutive year a Meeting on the environment and its safeguard. The Meeting ‘Environment and the Energy Program: supply, consumption and reuse” will be held on September 19th, 2013 at 9.00 a.m. in the Salone Papale of the Sacred Convent in Assisi.…

The volume will be presented on May 6th, 2013 in the framework of the V Meeting on the ‘History of the Italian National Institute of Health’. The volume is due to a joint work of the Academy of the XL and the National Institute of Health, that aims at recollecting the studies by Giovanni Battista Marini…

The opening ceremony of the 231st Academic Year of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL will take place on April 18, 2013 at the Academy Library, Scuderie Vecchie di Villa Torlonia, Via L. Spallanzani 1/A, Roma.